Definition of Sheathers

1. Noun. (plural of sheather) ¹

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Definition of Sheathers

1. sheather [n] - See also: sheather

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheathers

sheath of Schweigger-Seidel
sheath of thyroid gland
sheath pile
sheath rot
sheathable
sheathbills
sheathe
sheathed artery
sheathed cable
sheather
sheathers
sheathes
sheathfish
sheathier
sheathing
sheathings
sheathless
sheathlike
sheaths
sheathy
sheats
sheave
sheaved
sheaves

Literary usage of Sheathers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London by John Carpenter, Henry Thomas Riley (1861)
"H 118 Ordinance as between the Cutlers and the Sheathers . . I 71 Ordinance as between the Cutlers and the Bladesmiths I 71 Ordinance of the ..."

2. Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by George Unwin (1904)
"between three different crafts, the blacksmiths who made the ; blade, the cutlers who fitted the handle, and the sheathers who supplied the sheath ..."

3. The Cutlery Trades: An Historical Essay in the Economics of Small-scale by Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd (1913)
"We do not know when the blade- smiths and sheathers had become differentiated and separately organized, but we know that a similar triple division of the ..."

4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"... Middle Age is considered, and the jealousy lest one craft should encroach on the domain of another. We hear of bladesmiths, sheathers, buckle-makers, ..."

5. Readings in Industrial Society: A Study in the Structure and Functioning of by Leon Carroll Marshall (1918)
"... (Formerly) The House of St. Leonard—(Now) Masons; Cutlers, Bladesmiths, Sheathers, Sealers, ..."

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